Football can be a cruel game and lady luck, whenever the mood takes her, can be a cruel mistress. Together they can be absolutely vicious. Certainly Brisbane Strikers forward Gareth Musson, better known to his team mates as “Moose”, could be excused for thinking that tonight as he contemplates the end of his Hyundai QSL [...]
For someone who is not yet 24 years old, former North Queensland Razorback Sean Burke has arrived at the Brisbane Strikers via a surprisingly circuitous route. His football has been a journey that has already taken him from the unheralded playing fields of Cairns to Dutch club GVVV and Norwegian club FK Jerv and then [...]
It wasn’t pretty and it certainly wasn’t easy, but the Brisbane Strikers nonetheless got their defence of their Hyundai QSL title off the launching last night, with a lone Matt Thurtell goal earning them all three points over the Capricorn Cougars at Perry Park. Thurtell struck thirty-four minutes into the first half and miserly defending [...]
A very, very long Hyundai QSL off-season is almost over, and not a moment too soon for the Brisbane Strikers as they prepare for a potentially difficult opening fixture of their 2010 season against the Capricorn Cougars at Perry Park on Saturday night. It is not difficult to gain the impression from coach Stuart McLaren [...]
The Brisbane Strikers are bringing back “the hill” – Solo Hill, to be precise – as they prepare to get their defence of their Hyundai Queensland State League football title underway against the Rockhampton-based Capricorn Cougars at Perry Park on Saturday night. The Strikers are joining forces with Football Queensland sponsors Solo and Quest Newspapers [...]
The Brisbane Strikers’ mostly triumphal pre-season march leading up to Saturday night’s Round 1 Hyundai QSL kick-off against the Capricorn Cougars hit a large and uncompromising speed bump tonight, as the Strikers went down 8-0 to the Japanese Under-21 National Universities at Stockland Park. The challenge of playing a representative side that draws from universities [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have handed out a pre-season wake-up call of the loudest kind to the Far North Queensland Bulls, winning 8-2 in Mareeba tonight. Teenage forward Matt Thurtell was a goal scoring glutton, notching four to give himself a massive confidence boost ahead of the season proper, while Gareth Musson continued his phenomenal pre-season [...]
Former Far North Queensland Bulls player Rylan Sadler looks likely to miss out on the opportunity to wear the colours of the Brisbane Strikers against his old club this Saturday, with injury keeping him out of the squad to travel to Mareeba for a pre-season friendly. Brisbane Strikers coach Stuart McLaren said today that the [...]
“If there are people in Brisbane who haven’t seen the QSL, or perhaps question its quality because teams come from outside the metropolitan area, then they should have come here tonight for an education”. Those were the words of Brisbane Strikers coach Stuart McLaren, who has seen a football ground or two across Australia, as [...]
The Brisbane Strikers wish to advise that Friday night’s pre-season friendly between the Brisbane Strikers and Capricorn Cougars will possibly be switched to Brisbane City’s Spencer Park, depending upon a pitch inspection at Perry Park on Friday. With concerns over how the newly-refurbished Perry Park playing surface has coped with the dual challenge of heavy [...]
While the Brisbane Strikers senior men’s team is in Townsville this weekend, the Under-20s will get some unscheduled action on Sunday thanks to an agreement with Moreton Bay United Jets. The two clubs were scheduled for a bye this weekend but will keep their match fitness up by playing a friendly fixture against each other [...]
After last weekend’s morale-boosting win over old foes Sunshine Coast Fire the Brisbane Strikers take their second trip to northern Queensland this week to take on the team who are arguably the most puzzling opponents in the NPL, Northern Fury. The Townsville-based former A-League club, who are player-coached by their former A-League midfielder Gareth Edds, [...]
The Brisbane Strikers have a date with A-League club Brisbane Roar at Perry Park. The friendly has been earmarked for Wednesday 7 August and will form part of the Roar’s pre-season preparations for their 2013/14 A-League campaign. For the Strikers, the fixture will fall four days before a Round 21 National Premier Leagues fixture against [...]